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Olaus Verelius

Swedish author
Olaus or Olof Verelius was a Swedish scholar of Northern antiquities who published the first edition of a saga and the first Old Norse-Swedish dictionary and is held to have been the founder of the Hyperborean School which led to Gothicism. Wikipedia
Born: February 12, 1618, Jonkoping County, Sweden
Died: January 3, 1682 (age 63 years), Uppsala, Sweden